Texas "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned, federal officials say
cbsnews.com
A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday while trying to enter the U.S. near a section of the southern border where Texas National Guard soldiers have prevented federal Border Patrol agents from processing and rescuing migrants.
Very much yes. And this time, let's complete the work.
Yes. I live in a southern shithole and i'd completely get it if America decided to bomb the entire place into a parking lot with no warnings.
No, please, bomb it into something other than a parking lot at least. The south already has way too fucking many of those.
America has invested a lot into bomb technology but we don't have one yet that will bomb something into, say, a library.
Can we bomb it into a forest?
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-make-seed-bomb
Maybe?
Could we bomb it into affordable housing?
We should have reconstructed harder...
Imagine being so shitty you make Border Patrol look like the fucking good guys.
This is becoming a common refrain in Texas. The Uvalde shootings were bungled by multiple Texas agencies; it was Border Patrol agents who eventually stopped the shooter.
Conservatives rejoice at the misery, oppression and death they cause. This is who conservatives are.
Right after Abbott said Texas would shoot migrants.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/greg-abbott-texas-shoot-migrants-border-biden-murder/
He said he doesn't because Biden would charge them for murder. Charge them now.
You could divert the trolley without killing anyone but they are immigrants what do you do?
Is there a way to flood one side of the tracks, run the trolley over the other, and kill everyone on board the trolley and the switchman to own the libs?
Can we give Texas back to Mexico so they can learn a little bit about human rights?
So, these agents hear about an emergency situation at the park, but when they get there Texas state cops don't want to let them enter, so the agents... Just give up and go home? Gosh, no wonder people in Congress are talking about more funding for securing the border, we apparently don't even give our Border Patrol firearms if this is how easy it is to stop them.
Are you suggesting the Border Patrol get into a shooting match with the TX national guard? Both sides are armed. It deserves a court case, not a gun fight.
Don't bring a gun to a tank fight. Don't even need to shoot back, just roll over them if they don't get out of the way.
On today's episode of "The cruelty is the point"
"We'll teach those goddamn migrants. How dare they come here searching for a better life?"
Biden needs to send the Army in and take over the Texas Border enforcement.
Army outranks the National Guard, especially the state ones. The POTUS absolutely also does have power to command any National Guard unit to stand down as well.
He legally can't. He is not able to unilaterally use the military as a domestic police force. This keeps the executive from using the military as their personal cudgel.
I agree with the strong arming via national guard though. I think there are some hoops, but there's absolutely plenty of precedent for a president taking command of a state's national guard (specifically in regard to border control as well).
He absolutely can send an army unit with Orders to enforce his orders to the Nat. Guard.
Not police force, but actually to patrol the border? Isn't that what they were set up to do? (Albeit to defend against state actors and not individuals)
nah man just open the border and hand them into the custody of amazon or walmart
That would be a step up from the meat packing plants, crop picking, and dishwashing they usually get.
Ironically, pretty close to what Texas wanted before being forced to do it themselves when the federal government did nothing about their complaints except denounce them for political points.
This crime occurred when people were crossing the border. The FBI needs to get involved and charge all involved with giving the order and physically restraining the agents with two counts of murder, and all present (excepting the Border Patrol agents) with accessory to murder.
When they grandly talk that every soldier must refuse orders going against human rights, and if not, be legible to be tried and punished afterwards, they are talking about these kind of orders...
Why is the federal government waiting for access from a state like Texas? Their officials are monsters and should be steamrolled to save lives.
I didn't realize states had the power to block federal personnel from performing their duties. Maybe they should activate the National Guard to protect the border patrol guys so they can do their jobs.
Pro Life!
Someone should push greg abbott down a flight of stairs. There is no god and my proof is that greg abbott is not currently on fire.